{"id":1445,"date":"2012-04-06T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2012-04-06T12:00:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T16:00:53","slug":"ewegofurst-thank-goodness-rodney-went-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1445","title":{"rendered":"Ewegofurst: Thank goodness Rodney went first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To generously allow others to precede you in hopes that they will identify, reduce, and perhaps be eliminated by, the potential hazards. <em>n.<\/em> A gesture of courtesy which is really the lead-in to a trap.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/mouse.gif\" alt=\"Thank goodness Rodney went first\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ewegofurst<\/strong>:  \/<em>yoo-go-furst<\/em>\/ Mavis was a clever lamb indeed. Day after day she avoided the slaughter by stunning the crowd with her impeccable manners. Ewegofurst was the last thing they heard&#8230; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Ewe &#8211; a female sheep.<br \/>\nGo &#8211; to move from one place or point to another.<br \/>\nFirst &#8211; coming before all others. <em>Created by:<\/em> fabdiva.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trapease<\/strong>:  \/<em>trap eez<\/em>\/ Mickey would trapease himself some free cheese by courteously allowing Rodney to go first and snap the mousecatcher. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Trap (hold or catch as if in a trap) &amp; Ease (freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort) plus WordPlay on Trapeze (a swing used by circus acrobats) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benevolentrap<\/strong>:  \/<em>buh-nev-uh-luhn-trap<\/em>\/ Denise was so happy to see that chivalry was alive when Ken held the door for her yesterday morning. It turned out to be a benevolentrap when it she found out that the boss was looking for someone to take care of a particularly cranky customer.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  benevolent (charitable, kind) + trap (snare, trick) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr2.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=mouse\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=mouse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: v. To generously allow others to precede you in hopes that they will identify, reduce, and perhaps be eliminated by, the potential hazards. n. A gesture of courtesy which is really the lead-in to a trap. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Ewegofurst: \/yoo-go-furst\/ Mavis was a clever lamb indeed. Day after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1445\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ewegofurst: Thank goodness Rodney went first<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}